mreaves Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 12 hours ago, wx2fish said: Spent last week up in Pittsburg. Caught a handful of Lakers in the First CT Lake in the 18-22" range. The trophy section of the CT River is low, but fished well. The state stocked a ton of rainbows and bookies into that stretch last Friday. Only downside was more people than usual fishing the river, it was mobbed at times. No huge fish, but a fun trip. Apparently lake trout were introduced in Yellowstone sometime in the 80’s and had a really bad impact on native species. They try to net out as many as the can each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 7 hours ago, mreaves said: Apparently lake trout were introduced in Yellowstone sometime in the 80’s and had a really bad impact on native species. They try to net out as many as the can each year. Law of unintended consequences will never be repealed. Deboullie Twp, 25 miles WSW from Fort Kent, has 20+ never-stocked ponds teeming with brookies (a few with blueback trout aka landlocked Arctic char) and one pond (Togue) in which landlocked salmon were introduced decades ago and which produce a nice stock-grow-catch fishery. Some years back (middle oughts?) an aerial stocking dumped salmon into Deboullie Pond by mistake, and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife quickly altered regs to allow/recommend keeping all salmon, any size, from there. Fortunately that species apparently cannot spawn at Debo as the tribs are way too small. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 My bro just reeled in a 43" shark off our beach. Was not expecting that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Just now, Hoth said: My bro just reeled in a 43" shark off our beach. Was not expecting that! Sand or blue. I caught a six foot blue just off the golf course on a boat. Tons of porgies in the water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Sand or blue. I caught a six foot blue just off the golf course on a boat. Tons of porgies in the water I think it was a blue. We grilled up some porgies last night. Delicious little fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 10 hours ago, Hoth said: I think it was a blue. We grilled up some porgies last night. Delicious little fish. Fighters, too. My only porgy encounter was over 60 years ago, can't recall whether it was off Long Branch or in Sandy Hook bay. Prior to that my only saltwater catch had been lingcod, which "fight" like a sand-filled sock. Porgy strength reminded me of bluegills, but the biggest sunny I ever caught was shy of 9" and weighed maybe 5 oz. Oz for oz bluegills seem as strong as anything I've had on a hook. Boost that to 12-15" and 1-2 lb and it really puts a bend in the rod. (And as you said, great on the table.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 4:58 PM, Ginx snewx said: Sand or blue. I caught a six foot blue just off the golf course on a boat. Tons of porgies in the water LOL--I was going to respond with that same question. Meanwhile, the latest word I got (about a week or so ago) was that there were a lot of baitfish down near Popham beach delaying the stripers' migration up the Kennebec. I guess food's more important to them than sex. Hopefully, next weekend will play out okay and more will have moved upriver to Pit2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 The Bassmaster Elite Series is on Champlain Thurs-Sun. Pretty fun to watch and see how little has changed since I last fished it 10 years ago. Weights seem to be coming back a bit from a few down years in 2015-2018. https://www.bassmaster.com/video/bassmaster-live-mix St. Lawrence River next week will be tons of 4-6lbs smallies and big waves. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 On 7/10/2021 at 7:44 AM, PowderBeard said: The Bassmaster Elite Series is on Champlain Thurs-Sun. Pretty fun to watch and see how little has changed since I last fished it 10 years ago. Weights seem to be coming back a bit from a few down years in 2015-2018. https://www.bassmaster.com/video/bassmaster-live-mix St. Lawrence River next week will be tons of 4-6lbs smallies and big waves. I've been to champlain a few times, but really want to get to the St. Lawrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Caught the first trout of my life the other night on the bank of the Nashua River where Flints Brook dumps in. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fz583 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Nice trout, what did ya catch it on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 7/31/2021 at 2:54 PM, fz583 said: Nice trout, what did ya catch it on? Googan squad rattling craw of all things. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 12 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said: Googan squad rattling craw of all things. Their rattling ned has been killer this year. I hardly touched a ned rig last year, fish in the Q see tons of them. That little rattle makes all the difference though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Winds were finally cooperating. No tuna but a nice little consolation prize... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 On 7/30/2021 at 9:31 PM, Chrisrotary12 said: Caught the first trout of my life the other night on the bank of the Nashua River where Flints Brook dumps in. Wow that's a nice one! Washed down from the nissitissit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diggiebot Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Alaska fishing trip in late July. We should have salmon like this up in Maine and NH. Hopefully conservation efforts bring them back at some point. We caught 18 salmon on the Kenai river near Soldotna. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diggiebot Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Also caught a 40 lb halibut and our boat limit of 12 total. Highly recommend Alaska it was so beautiful. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Diggiebot said: Alaska fishing trip in late July. We should have salmon like this up in Maine and NH. Hopefully conservation efforts bring them back at some point. We caught 18 salmon on the Kenai river near Soldotna. Nice catch (both pics). Penobscot salmon run is slowly increasing but still in the hundreds, way below the 3000+ fish that would go thru the fishway in the early 1980s. Back then one could actually keep one fish. Now even fishing for them (intentionally, meaning use of salmon-fly patterns) is forbidden, though if one that hits something shiny cast by a bass fisherman it's okay as long as the fish is released unharmed. Would love to see the Kennebec run re-established, in part because the watershed's historically best salmon-spawning trib (the Sandy) runs less than 2 miles from home. Salmon eggs have been inserted into man-made redds in the upper Sandy, near the Phillips-Madrid line, for several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Explored Quaboag today. Frog bite was on, had about a dozen, most of which 2-4 lbs. First cast I had a pike in the 15-20lbs range. 7'3 heavy jig rod with 50 lbs. braid, couldn't budge it. Stripped about 80-100' of line off. I had the drag almost cranked, put my thumb on the spool to slow it down and put a good slice in it, popped off in some grass after a 2-3 minute fight. Unreal, thought I was in salt water. I see why people ice fish for them now lol 2-year-old kiddo was very upset about the fish eating "Kermit." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 7 hours ago, PowderBeard said: Explored Quaboag today. Frog bite was on, had about a dozen, most of which 2-4 lbs. First cast I had a pike in the 15-20lbs range. 7'3 heavy jig rod with 50 lbs. braid, couldn't budge it. Stripped about 80-100' of line off. I had the drag almost cranked, put my thumb on the spool to slow it down and put a good slice in it, popped off in some grass after a 2-3 minute fight. Unreal, thought I was in salt water. I see why people ice fish for them now lol 2-year-old kiddo was very upset about the fish eating "Kermit." I had a similar experience at Quaboag with a Pike, thought I had a huge bass at first, fun fight to bring it in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 How does one ice fish for a 15-20 lb pike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted August 8, 2021 Author Share Posted August 8, 2021 4 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said: How does one ice fish for a 15-20 lb pike? with using suckers instead of shiners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 My bro and I pulled in quite a few dogfish surf-casting after sunset last night. No stripers biting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 On 8/10/2021 at 6:39 AM, Hoth said: My bro and I pulled in quite a few dogfish surf-casting after sunset last night. No stripers biting though. You throw them back? On the party boats they used to break their necks and thrown them back for fish food. I heard they use them for fish and chips in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 On 8/7/2021 at 8:01 PM, Whineminster said: with using suckers instead of shiners I like pumpkin seed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 8 hours ago, DavisStraight said: You throw them back? On the party boats they used to break their necks and thrown them back for fish food. I heard they use them for fish and chips in England. Yeah, we release them. We've been reeling in a ton of them and porgies using squid and clams. It wouldn't occur to me to keep them for eating. Occasionally we'll keep the porgies if they're big enough and make fish cakes, but we're really more interested in bagging stripers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Been having too much fun fishing other ponds lately to head back to the Quabbin (never thought I'd say that). Hit Quaboag again the other day and had about a half dozen largies in the 4 lbs range along with about a dozen others. Forgot how much I missed throwing jigs in heavy grass and winching them out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 2 hours ago, PowderBeard said: Been having too much fun fishing other ponds lately to head back to the Quabbin (never thought I'd say that). Hit Quaboag again the other day and had about a half dozen largies in the 4 lbs range along with about a dozen others. Forgot how much I missed throwing jigs in heavy grass and winching them out. That's a nice fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 2 hours ago, DavisStraight said: That's a nice fish. If you ever want to head out on one of the lakes in Brim/Brookfield just let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 1 hour ago, PowderBeard said: If you ever want to head out on one of the lakes in Brim/Brookfield just let me know! sure will, you fishing shore or boat? I used to have a nice 15 foot bass boat but built a house so I sold it, looking to pick up another one, probably look for a 20HP so I have the option to take it to Quabbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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